Looking at buying a CCDB – have found it for £405. TFtuned sell it for £495. Is there any thing extra that tftuned do to it to make it worth spending the extra £90?

Cheers

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At that price is it coming from USA? Bear in mind import duty of 20%

random Jeremy – it is a uk shop selling it at that price. so i am pretty sure it would be coming from a uk distributor? surely they can’t be taking you order then ordering it from the US?

It takes between 2 to 4 weeks from Freeborn as they are ordered from the States, £405 is the final price, no duty involved. Don’t know if TF stocks them or does the same.

They are all built in the US to order iirc – clarify it with the shop whether that’s the final price

the ccdb is so adjustable it shouldn’t need a custom tune. i’d go for the cheapest one!

+1 for the others, theyre made to order in US so not usually held in stock, I seriously doubt TfT touch them, theyre probably just charging full rrp on the basis their position as suspension experts allows them to. 95 quid is a big saving.

I assume they supply with your choice of spring weight?

With TFT you will get all the bushing etc which is at a guess £20 worth. TFT also resized the black scuff-ring on mine as it was getting very heavily scuffed by the spring – not great in the mud 🙄

I quite like mine but I’m not sure it’s worth it over a tuned DHX. There is a slight dullness to it, it’s hugely composed and it certainly does it’s job really well expecially at speed in the silly stuff or in slow speed techy stuff; but on the more normal run of the mill trails it never feels great for popping off little rocks beside the trails and general faffing/playing – almost like it’s too composed and needs a kick up the bottootum to get the oil flowing and hence make it work all the time. It might be my set up and I need to open up the low speed compression/rebound a little… but I’ve mostly fiddled with the high speed stuff so far… beware removing too much rebound… it’s very easy to make the bike handle dreadfully!!! 😕

had mine from TF Tuned. delivered next day. They set it up for my bike, weight etc and ive hardly had to adjust it.

CCDB ?

A quick google gives me either …………

Cytotoxic protein CcdB, a lethal gene, Colorado Criminal Defense Bar or a
Cell Centered Database

Cane Creek Double Barrel.

Where have you been?

messiah, tlr had the same issues with the ccdb and a tune from stendec worked wonders for it, the same as geetee….

it depends on what extra tft supply then a standard shop, if they tune it, and provide all the fittings then it would be worth it.

if they don’t then i wouldnt bother.

My understanding is that there is no custom tuning with a CCDB – it’s the one tune fits all shock. Get-it, fit-it, tune-it-yourself.

Not sure what Stendec do to improve the shock a’la’ geetee and TLR, but I’ll probably give Dave a call once I’ve exhausted the fiddling options.

As far as I’ve heard from e-netz for newer CCDB, there are improvements made to bigger valving inside and rubber bumper ring for bottom out. Wouldn’t say anything if TFT resize those valves etc.
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and of course some lovelies propaganda mass hypnosis for CCDB to be
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and to confuse even more, from recent news … there is a rumour of CCDB Air.

HTH

tft will probable twiddle the setting to what you want.

I have no idea whether freeborn will do this.

if you email malcolm@canecreek.com he will send you recommended settings for your weight and bike which make a good starting point.

STENDEC will indeed improve the shock characteristic to suit rider / frame and rider preference.

mine is FUKKN awesome now it’s been amended 🙂

note it was blowing hyd fluid from the LS adjusters as the ‘o’ rings have a tendency to vulcanize, hence the visit to STENDEC – a true CCDB expert at work. thoroughly recommended.